Anime - My Neighbor Totoro

Anime - My Neighbor Totoro

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Scenario: Hayao Miyazaki
Genre: comedy
Number of series: 1
Studio: GHIBLI
Year: 1988
Format: feature films, 88 min.
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Description:
( "Tonari no Totoro", the English title of "My Neighbor Totoro". Scenario author and director Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Dzhibli, 1988).
"Neighbor Totoro" - a story about how two girls, four and seven years old, meet-the custodians of the forest spirits. Owing to illness, the mother moved the family to the village, and from the first frames, girls begin to discover and develop new, unusual and fascinating world - village house, garden and surroundings. The entire first half of the film virtually devoid of plot: the heroes do not have the tasks that were not intended to, do not participate in conflicts, they simply live. But this be so attractive that it is not like any plot.
"Totoro" can be justifiably called the "Encyclopaedia of Japanese life." We learn how the Japanese house with his tsynovkami, which relies not walk in shoes, and sliding walls, looks like a garden with a pond and indispensable stone lantern that both eat and how characters are taught in school, sleep on mattresses with mosquito Japanese net and even wash as in the Japanese bath. True, some things in this house we do not see, in particular, televisions: the action film takes place in 60 - ies. This is done specifically to nothing became among the young heroine and nature.
Landscapes in "Totoro" - a mixture of several real locations, mainly Tokorodzava Prefecture, Miyazaki where he lived during the work on the film, but above all simply rural species, some generalized, idyllic Japan.
All the scenery is extremely detailed, and some of them in detail combines realism with a slight distortion of the overall prospects like electricity lines up to the heavens, creating the effect that there is a children's eyesight.
Among pereleskov pattern and rice paddies are living creatures that gave the name of the film: three Totoro, large, medium and small. They are not characters of Japanese folklore, and invented a completely Miyazaki, even the word "totoro" arises from borrowing, when the youngest girl is not properly reprimand "Troll". Nevertheless, they are naturally very place in the traditional Japanese perceptions, among the lowest natural deities, spirits custodians areas.
Outwardly like Totoro joint thick or cats, they do not know how to talk, but walk on the rear legs have black noses, mohnatoe a round belly and sharp ears. The size of a small Totoro on the knee, the average waist, high - above human growth, but still unusually pretty. However, it must be noted one characteristic detail. Portraying them, Miyazaki is not merely a soft toy, as it probably would make a western artist, but provided a large Totoro very impressive teeth and claws. Nature can be nice, pleasant and gentle, but for the Japanese always somewhere is a reminder that it can be terrible.
Since the second half of the film begins operation, and it is very easy: phoned from the hospital that my mom would not be able to return home for the weekend, the younger girl herself went to it, but lost on the road, and Totoro helped find her elder sister.
Of course, there is still much, as is impossible to tell, for example, a wonderful kotobus (cat - bus), which travels Totoro himself, but in a sense the plot in this film is not the main thing. "Totoro" - sweet, good children's tale, and as such is certainly suitable for their immediate recipients, kids five or six years. But at the same time, and this is very typical of Miyazaki's films, and he turned to adult audiences. It is a film for adults in Japan, he won his huge popularity: the magic tool to a full hour to forget about the city and adult cases and restore the emotional force better than the present output in nature, because no output is currently not return a child to humans purity of view. In "Totoro" is what we are lacking - and this contemplation natural rest.